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The Brussels Post, 1901-3-7, Page 7A,'i ti nr� 1diGalile�;ltr t4 THE CHAPTER VI, It Cal all over new, Dolores told ;herself. There wile an end of her dream Some Due else had teems, her pingo at the plan°, and a beautiful robe wale oiling the room with Melo- dy. Juyt then she wavy hardly oap- able of a Oen' thought, She did not know theft Sir Karl stood watohing lox with wistful oyes, eyes full of peen end wander, that last "good -by" ringing in his ears and stirring les healrt. He could not help Geeing teat She hard sung it with a purpose; and that pua'poda waa to bid farewell to him "'Coo Late I" A'hl- It wan In- deed too later But if It would .be for her ha'ppinees, rte Meat be eon - tent. "She does not look like a girl who would eel! herself for money," he thought. "She lute the face of one who could give her life for the man oho loved." Lola waa quick enough to see that tntere waleeomething amiss; and elle wale not far wrong in her surmise. Dolores never know how the rest of the evening passed. It must have been a very pleasant one, for there Cal plenty of laughter, dancing and meek, and the ahaeadea were high, ly applauded; but Doloree sat In a long padnful dream, aa though she Were taking her part in a play, while her thoughts and heart were else- where. It had been a proper test, ilial little incident of the red and change in it. Tho brightness was whig to Dolores,•Wa6 gone; the light that shone there now read tae though Lola e roaes. It L d said,"Wbiclt. was of heaven rather than of eartb; it wal the calm of content earhly acquired; It was do expression quite different from. anything he had seen on his daughter's face before. "Dolorea," he cried in a aharp voice, "you—are you happy!" "Quite happy," she answered. "There ire no one you care more for than Lord Rdsyaworth, is there! Tell me the truth, Dolores! I would not let you sacrifice yourself for me; you meet net do that. Is there any one you like better! I—I would sooner be dead, my child, than that for my sake you should marry a man whom you do not love, ,and lose one whom perhaps you do love." He never forgot the strange smile that came over her fano ae she laid her hands upon hie shoulders and looked at him. "You may believe me, dear," • ehe said. "There is no ofie Who Dares ,eor me; who should! I do not see many people. I am 'too young to have Never again would the sound Of a thought of ouch things. No one cares voice or the fall of a footstep make tor me; believe me papa;' her heart throb; pevor more would If he had been more eitrewd and her pulses thrill at the touch of a worldly, he must have noticed that, hand. She would live her lite, do her although she repeated her statement duty, and at the end would Dome , that no one oared for her, ebe never sweetest rest. She had nothing to, once said that she oared for no one. do now but to write to the goneroue i The Squire went on: man who had laid his fortune at her I "I will a coward yesterday, Dolores, feet and tell him that ehe haddecid-I The plea of poverty frightened me. ed, and wee ready to marry Wm.I could have cried like a child then; When she reached White Oliffe, she but, now that I look at you, Dolores, heard that the Squirehadgond to + in the light of another day, I feel bed. She wee relieved to know'that be'aver and etrottger. 'In the course She would not have to see him that night;•by morning she would have re- gained her oomposure,, and would be able to meet him with a smiling face. It wan her own fault entirely; she repeated that to herself again and again. She ought to have had more sense than to give even one thought to a man who did not care for her. All that the suffered was the just re- ward of her own folly; no one could pity her; she could only feel ashamed for herself. She knelt down and prayed ad she had never prayed in her life before; and when she had her Mead on the pillow, it war; with the g re w ° as fought a good fight and Conquered, Bally the next morning she went to the Shalee. tie was, Ian his study, bie( favorite room, with a cup of eo-- fee before Jrlun. He looked up quick- ly ee elle entered, and ehe read In his eyee the naixiety, tee hope, the fear that he did not exprea0'im Worde, She went and knelt down by hes side, "1 breve come to a deeir8ion papa," elle salad, "I thought I would ease your mind by, telling you at once. I have - deeided to marry Lord Bhp - worth." The Squire pushed hie coffee -cup nettle, looked at Nits daughter earnest- ly, laid, down hie paper, and eat for some momenta 10 silent delight. "Is it really true, Dolores(" he ask- ed at last. She put her arms round hie note( and drew the white head upon her bosom.. "Yea, papa; you shall live at White Cliffe until you die. You shall nev- er leave it to go amongst strangers; and you shall have all your comfort dear. You will be each again, and have money to do with ae you like. You will be very happy, my dearest —hoppiem than you have ever been." Something in her voice seemed to dieturb the'Squiwe, for he raised his head, and, in hie turn, drew the beau- tiful face down to hie. He looked at itt long end -anxiously; even to his dim eyee there wan d wonderful of ate ewe do you prefer, Dolores Clief- den or myself 1" and Sir Karl had ans- wered, "I prefer you, Lola," whereas to hem it had been go unimportant that the red rose be had chosen still lacy upon the floor. "She Wright ha,ve.seed good -by quiet- ly," he ttculre e, "and not have sung it iln wo'' da -that must haunt me um- - fel'f die. She sung them reproach- fully- too, ate though it were my fault that I am her lost friend. Ishould ha'vte been her friend until death, but She la marrying for money and pot for love." The mtaera'ble -night came to an end at last. Sir Karl went away first, and Delores was driven home in mad- ame's carriage. The girl was thank- ful to be alone, to be where ate was not compelled to smile and talk while ber heart felt ready to break. The Stan were ablating, and the air, was laden with sweet odors. She was very young; but tithe said to herself that all was ended now except duty. of nature I cannot lime many years. What does it matter, llf only you are happy, dear !" There wee a faint quiver on her lips; and then she said— "I am quite happy, papa. In the years to come, when you think about bhis, and about my marriage, always remember that I waa quite happy, that I bad no regrets, and that I was most grateful to the generous man who rescued tie." He listened a.ttentivety. "Thole we pleasant words, Dolores; butt they bei a not the right ring." "You may believe me," she said. Reeling of wearied relief which one 'You must always remember that I ■ Bs %tares ' x.f the T root and Lk rags Lead to Pneumonia and Consumption—Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine Cures Theio • Aliments. To -day alt is only a cough; only a Wilding In the throat. To.morroly tvi l conn thepains and soreness in the chest, the bronchial tubes and tangs. Once again is repeated the old tory of oonsumrptiou or pneumonia developed from a neitleoted cold. IChere la no aye giving up and Raying, "Weal lee to be will be," far you can tolieve and loosen any cough and thoroughly cure the oold by using Dr. abase's Syrup al Linseed and Turpen- tine, which for nearly a third of a 'sentare( has been the "stand-by" in thousands of Oanadian homes, as a safeguard agaims't pneumonia, eon- sureption, and sextette lung troubles. Though turpentine had long been oonaidesod invaluable as a retaodial agent ter inflammation of the air pas- sages, it remained for Dr. A. W. Qhase to sot oombehe it with linseed, licorice, And half a dozen oiler ingredients ea to make a pleasant tasting and re- inarka'bty effective preparation for ocughs, colds, end kindred.ailments, De. Ohase's Syrup of Linseed and •Turpentine le different from any Ithrerat and hung treatment Y6nit over used. When tired of newfangled mixtures of unoertain merit you can turn to Dr. Ceases Syrup of Linseed. and Turpentine with absolute assur- ance that it is tbe safest, surest, and most thorough cure for coughs and colds that wee ever discovered. Mrs. E. Dwyer, of Cdtesterei:11e, says;—"My Little girl tail three yearn' had an attack ad bronchial pneumonia. My husband and I thought she was going to leave the world, as her case resisted the dootor's treatment. I bought a bottle of Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine from our popular druggist, W. G. Bols,ter.:Af- tor. tbe Beet two or three doses the child began to got batter, and we and thankful to, say is all right to -day af- ter seven weeks' sickness." Nearly every druggist has some sort of a oelugb mixture to offer you 10 place of what you. oak for, but 11 yoti wane to be cured inaist on have log Dr. Chase's. It has stood the test and has no worthy rival. Dr, Ohasti'd Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine, 23 genes a bottle family size; tbree times as much 0Or3oents, All deals One, eV Eidanansoni Betas , ami Cour pang, Tm'ontta, I .,. • e t_1-1-1-.•, awn iu (doledlueadr:teeontlmy yhaPpagpe,y, teIl emvabut ni7 If yc'1L liked My aplrna flag, then you May beli'ove teat I am hot happy, Klee me, (Papa, and toll me etre believe ate," He kjesed the sweet bee) and lain lois hayed oareeeingly e'n the golden bead. • "I believe . Yen, my darling, and I eon q'u'ite happy too in the belief," !Then aloe rose from, ger knees and busied herself In axra'nging ]tis papers, "I will write to Lord Rhysworth to- day," ehe said'. "and perhaps he will Dome aver. Parra, grant me thief fay- oa'; le he comea, see 'him for me this once. I will coo ]Tian to -morrow," Thee the old Squire promised to do, "Dear Lord. Iiihyewerth," Dolores wrote -"I have been tltdnking well ever the question you asked me, and I have come to a decision. I thank you for your generous offer, -and, In accepting it, assure you that it shall be the one endeavor of my life to make you u good and faithful wiffe. "I am, dear ',tied Rhysworth, yours Very einoerely. DOLORES CLII,FDF.N." It wan not a very enthnsiastio love letter, but true wad honest. She meant just what ehe wrote, that she would endeavor to be a true and good wife to him as long as she lived. In her own heart there was an unuttered prayer that her life might not be a verylong one. She wan not quite aware of it herself: Lord Rbyeworth received' the letter, and was transported with delight af- ter. reading It. He went at onoe to White Oliffe, where the Squire re- ceived him with heartiest welcome. He did not eve Dolores. She was fatigued, the Squire said, with her long evening at . Beaulieu. If he would ride over on the morrow, Dol- ores would 'see him then. Without having gained a glimpse of the fair face he laved ao dearly, Lord Rhyeworbh went away. That same evening from Deoping Hurst (tame a magnificent bouquet for Dolores; and never a day passed afterward with- out prevents of fruit and flowers find- ing thein' way to White Oliffe. The old Squire seemed to grow young and strong again under the new influ- ence. Next day Do+lorea stow Lord Rhys - worth. He lrietsed her hands with old fashioned gallantry. "You have made me the happiest man on earth," he said, "and the de-; rotten of my whole lie shall repay you." "I will do my beet to make you bapPe," ehe answered. And that waa all the wooing that I. aver peased between them. It was enough perhaps for reason and com- mon-sense; but, alas, for the girlish; dream of love and romance! How, would it end 1 OHAPTER VIL • In less then two days the news of Dolores's engagement hadspread all over the country. It gave general eaUse action, for every one liked and esteemed Lard Rhysworth; and of Dolores Cliefden the whole country was proud. She wan "one of them;" tithe had grown up amongst them; she belonged to a family that had once been Heat in the country; site was beautiful and high -bred. One and all rejoiced 10 the good fortune that had befallen her. True, a few simple- hearted wouten who bad married for love themyelvee and believed there was nothing like lore thought the dif- ferenoe of a•ge too great, said amongst bhemeelvee that Dolores was young enough to be Lord Rhyeworth's daughter, and that it was a pity he was so old, and wondered as they teemed the rosy faces of their ohildren whether Dolores loved Lord Rhys - worth. They were only a few hap- pily married women who thought this. The girld envied her; there was hard- ly: one in the country who would not have changed placed with ber. Loea,t(ntdled when he heard the oboe, "That sty (lust What I thought," she said, "and I am sure that the day on which I went over to White Cliffe was the day on which the offer .wee made. Dolores had something on her mind, I know, end It wail this. It will be strange id ,she is Lady Rhysworth and I am Lady Allanmore. We aha11 be greater rivals thaneverthen." No doubt came to her mind that she ehonld not one day be Lady Allan - more. Site Karl bad evidently had a passing fancy for Dolores; but it must end now, and she would soon take Mel Oliefden's place. "A see- able murrringe," Lola called it; and elle knew well that the ' manner in which, ehe used the word "sensible" oonveyed more than a volume could. Meet people who heard It thus am- phaeized sanded, and went away with the word "mercenary" in their minds. Sir Karl wall one of the first to hear the rumor confirmed. He had rid- den into Deeping to attend some; meeting held an county business, and there found every one disouse1ng the naming alliance. ,An be was riding away, he mot Lord iihyaworth, and, afterboldlya- ordfew wq of greeting, he said "I wonder if I may . congratulate you, Lord Rhysworth i" -There Was a anions look on the young man's faoe, a paling of bhe ILpS and deepen« bag of the 1Gned abogt his m°utb, ,.which'. 41(1 not etrlke Lord Rhys- ward►, "Yon have carried oft the greoteat prise in the country," said SIT Karl, "if it to true that you are going to 111,0axrY AZiys 011eiden," lie wee !profoundly touched when Lord Irby-aworth raised hla hat though he would 40 all Manor to t name. "I hope;' field itis lordship, "wi the blessing o41 heaven, chat I an g ing to armory Mils Cliefden, I soca to you more frankly, Sir Karl, than should to any one else, I an the ha piest math in the world, cud I hope Make my dear ware the happiest Women.,, "I trust that every desire of yo heart may be realized," responded S Karl; and he meant it. "Shall .I pr sulne if I ask when tee wedding 10 be?" he added. To Be Continued. ■ TO SETTLE FE(JD OF 600 YEAR Miners Prom Ube North. -Sig Alaskan dinar 11111 leery !Ito Hotelier. Returning miners from Alask bring word that the celebrated feu which has existed among the India of Alaska for more than 000 yearn I about to be aettied, and the rattl snake skin which has been hangln Iireny of Venetian Qui!, One of the greatest Aurptisee that greet' a touriAt la Venleo le the oember rai- rltuat of the Venetian girl, Most people 000 so aceustorned to see tier courting on the stage of light opera 111 gaudy haws and depicted by the artist In colors rival, ing the rainbow that whop she is seen in as real lifo the revelation of our long dein. hu seen comes with something approaching a shoat. Iieantitul In many :vases we tine ber. So Sar the artists have pre• th seated her faithfully. But in the matter a- of attire how far short they have fallen • of the realistic ideal! In her portrait • she has been presented en a light emelt and yellow handkerchief, maimed and 00- p- tidy, fringed, strung with beads, set off to with a flower, having her hale done in the of open air and indulglug in the faverito pastime of gossiping, with gesture of hands and play of expression, ur Really iter dress, while not always it black, is generally of a dark hate, does e- fitting and neither short nor long. The universal open air garment 0f the towns - to woman of all ages Is the black shawl, with a deep fringe of slit, folded, with a short point above and a long point below, wrapping about the figure from neck and sometimes from head to foot, D+very S. woman in Venice follows the latest mode of dressing the hair, which is another t,, radical departure from the artists' idea. In general the women of Venice impress a the visitor ae demure and trim and far less fond of color than their sisters 10 d London, Paris, New York or Philadel- ns phia.—Philadelphia Times. is e- The Unprepared Wife. The normal girl naturally looks for- from the doorpost of Sitkaa and tb Wrangel Island Indian tribes fo more than six centuries will soon b replaced by the olive branch of peao Generation after generation he heard from their parents the wrong of the tribe at the hands of the' mortal foes, until it is a part of th religious duty of parents to tea their children to hate their ancien enemy. ul feud of so long standing could no be wiped out in a moment, In foot, fo more than 100 years; tbere has been movement on foot to settle the diff catty and live in peace. The oomin of the miners and other whites dierin the last four or five years has don much to hasten the settlement that about to be made. The rpotlateh, the arbiter of al feuds, follies, the leveller of all sec e ward to the time when she will have the tare of home, husband and children, yet, ✓ sad to say, she is often wholly unpre- e pared to assume the responsibilities when e, they come to her. To presume to matte a a home and care for a family without prep- aration is parallel to a physician attenme lug the practice of medicine without u study and with the expectation of gain- s ing knowledge from experiments on his eh patients. We would be horrified at the temerity of such a physician, and yet we t complacently leave our girls without in- struction in reference to the highest, ho- t liest duty of womanhood. Under these r circumstances can we wonder that many a homes are absolute failures? One of the first things a girl shoald be 1- taught s that wealth and social position g count for nothing unless united with pu- g rity of thought and life and honesty of e purpose. Until such standards are re- quired by young women in choosing their it husbands the marriage relation cannot be wbat God intended it to be—the highest 1 type of earthly happiness. Prom "Girl- - hood to Womanhood," by Sallie Joy tional and tribal troubles, has been managed by Kodowatt, a Klukwa chief, at the village of Klukwan, o the Dalton trail who has spent th greater part of his life in trying to go the various tribes to consent to treaty of pegoe, and has expended th savings of a lifetime in his effort t provide for the owning meeting of th tribes Be has purchased bard taok and su gar and quantities of the choices viands known to the Indian wbioh h will dispense with a hospitality know only to the Indian brave. Merchants in towns near Klukwan nay that they have sold immens stocks to the Indians in anticipation of the great feast which Is to be tb last of the kind by the famous chief. White, in Woman's Home Companion, n Sarah Grand's Discouraging Start. n Time. Sarah Grand has a good deal to e say in her autobiography of the difficul- t ties she had in getting some of her books a published. For instance: "'The Heavenly Twins' finished, I was e flung back into despair again by tht, re - o fusel of Bentley to publish it; he had in e the meantime taken up 'Idenla.' The weary round began again; nearly every publisher was tried—certainly every large - house. The book was rejected every - t where. Some of them kept it an nneoa- e scionable time—a cruel thing to do. On n coming to London I had the benefit of the help of one of my stepsons, who had left the army and had settled down to a lit- erary and artistic career, and of my son, e who (lad gone on the stage. We decided to print the book ourselves, and ere did e Be" It was during the negotiations with re- gard to getting a publisher's name on the cover that the book went to Mr. Heine- mann, and from the moment it entered his office, its author says, the tide seem- ed to turn. He took over the whole risk and brought it out with success_ ANIMALS THAT WEEP. Shed Real Tears and ver. Reasons That Oanse Boman Reines to Herp. Laughing is believed' to be peculiar to man, but the same is not true of weeping, which io a manifestation of emotion that sty met with in divers anenlale. M. Henri Coupin, writing in La Nature, quotes numerous au- thorities to show that many animals gibed real tears, add for the same rim - eons that cause human beings to weep. Among the oreaturee that weep moat eaaily are the ruminants, with whom the act ly ao ,well known that ut has gliven rise to a trivial but Ace =ante expression, "To weep like a calf." All Mntem know that the sing weeps, and we are also assured that the bear sheds tears when it eves its last hour 'alproanhing. The giraffe it not jess sensitive, and regards w1th tearful eyes the hunter who has wounded it. Gordon Oammimg says of an eland which ho had pursued for a long time: ".leaks of foam flew from its mouth; abundant sweat had given to its gray kkrn an ashy blue tint. Tears fell 'from its great black eyes, and it was evident that the eland felt that ing last hour had come." Doge weep quite easily. The same is true of certain monkeys. As for' the elephant, there ie abundant evi denee of the ease with whioh it weeps. Sparrman secures us that it shells tears when wounded, or when it sees that it cannot escape; its tears roll from ate eyes like those of a human being in affliotion. Tennent, speaking of captured ele- pbants, sayd tbat "some remain quiet, lying on the ground without mani- festing theilr griorotherwiee than by tee tears that bathe their Oyes and ram constantly down." Aquatic animals, too, are able to weep. Thus all authors agree in My- ing that dolphins, at the moment of death, draw deopsighs andshod tears abundantly. A young female seal has also been seen to weep when teas- ed by a sailor. St. Hilaire and Ouvier ensure us,on the aut'liority of the Malaya, that when a young dugong ie captured, the mother Sl sure to be taken aio. The little ones then cry out and shad tears. These tears are eolleoted with oaro by the Malays, and are pre0ereed aa;a charm thatis core teen to make a lover's( affection last= log. A Hint For Grandma, Women with straight hair and little of It keenly feel this disfigurement, not be- ing able to make up such deficiencies by artificial means when ill, as they nlways do in health. Caps are out of the ques- tion, though pretty beribboned affairs which we know of traditionally must have been far more becoming than some of the frowsy heads of their day. Again must Frenchwomen be quoted and look- ed up to for their dominant characteris- tic of making themselves attractive per- sonally under all circumstances and for their pronounced skill in hiding defects. In such a case as this will they wear a scarf of India mull edged with lace tied wound becomingly over their heads or a square of it 20 inches draped with the point in front and also trimmed with a delicate lace—valeneieones usually and not too wide. The ends are caught with some simple little brooch, and small sil- ver or gold safety pins keep it in place on the head, says Vogue, while net of the wash variety is also much used for such purposes. Lady Beaconsfield. Mrs. Duncan Stewart described Lady Beeconsfleld as originally a factory girl. Me. Lewis first saw her going to ber fac- tory beautiful and with bare feet. He ed - tented her and married ber, died and left her very rich, and then she married Dis- raeli. When asked why she m cried her second hasband, she would say as if it was a feather in her cap, "My dear, he made love to me while my first husband was alive, and therefore I knew that he really loved me," It was at Green - meadow, a house four miles Stem Lima - daft, that Disraeli served his apprentice- ship as secretary to Mr. Lewis, living in the house with him and Airs. Lewis in the position of a dependent. When the house overflowed with visitors from Lon- don, as was often the ense, he was sent out to sleep at the Hollybush, a little public house in the village Both Green - meadow and the Hollybush exist still.— "The Story of My Life," by Augustus J. O. Hare. Optimistic Women. The cheery woman plays an important part every day that she lives, She is al- ways needed. There is no time when she can be spared from the !!.nee of the earth, for there is this day and another and all other days when y00 or I will be glad to see her and hear her say to us, "The darkest hoar is always before day," or something else quite es hopeful. The bravely optimistic woman, howev- er, dons not force her ensiles upon yon. If you are grieved, she will weep with you, She will net insist that your trou- ble, which Is a real one, else you woeld not weep, is as thin and light as air. That it worries yon 10 enough to demand her sympathy, though it is ber way to set about to see ie she can't point out to you away to clear it up, and site is willing to put her shoulder to the Wheel, too; BETWEEN THE ARTS, Nance O'Neill will piay Macbeth ill Sydney, Australia, Mary Alaunet'ing has made a ]tit 14 "Janice Meredith." It is said that Coquolin wants to play Gillette's "Sherlock Oloilnes," Clyde. Fitch has written 'a play upon the subject of Major Andre in which. Charles Rlah,nan may star. The full title 0f the new Sullivan - Hood opera is "',cite Emerald Isle; or, The Caves of Carrlg Cleena," In the 12e r y a s of his slurring Career Francis Wilson has produced 11 eomle operas, at a gross outlay of $100,000. John Philip Sousa will take his band over to the international exhibition to be held in Glasgow, Soolland, this year. There was a well defined rumor in, London recently that Ellen Terry had decided to retire from the stage on ac Count of nervous prostration. 'Tine sultan of Turkey Is A. great lover of the theater and a student of the European drama, In which subject he is said to be very well versed. Thomas A. Hall, who has a part in "The Pride of Jennico," was one of the first actors to play Uncle Tom In the play made from Mrs, Stowe's book. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt brought her own carriage and coachman to Amerl- ca, and throughout her entire Amerl, sun tour she 15 accompanied by her own Paris physician. "To Anna Held, from George H. Ketchum," is the inscription engraved upon a silver plated horseshoe pre -I rented to the comedienne. The shoe i was worn by Oresceus, 2:04, in the great $20,000 stallion race won by bind at Boston Sept. 27. TROTTER AND PACER. Early Reaper, 2:09%, will not be seen on the turf until 1902. Plunkett, 2:131/4, at the age of 14 is a good roadster at La Gotos, Cal. The thoroughbred sire Kingston has been Insured for $75,000 with an Eng- lish company. Mettelas, 2:191/4, the third biggest money winner on the Lake Erie cir- cuit, will be handled in 1901 by W. J. Andrews. Carthage Girl, 2:151/4, the biggest money winner over the Lake Erie cir- cuit, Is being prepared for 1901 by Alile Merrifield, Diavolo, 2:1214, recently purchased by Jere O'Neil, is expected to be a dangerous competitor in next season's 2:13 pacing class. John Laughlin, who handled the youngsters for Dr. J. 0. McCoy, Kirk- wood, Del., is now one of the assist- ant trainers in Lawson's stable. Jim Burns, 2.751/, has been pur- chased by John Lake, a member of the Milwaukee Driving club. This horse has the unique record of having trotted a heat in a face with his driver dead In the sulky. The Greenville (N. C.) relnsman, R. L. Smith, will be seen on the Lake Erie circuit In 1901 with Lucy Ashby, 2:1434, and Paddy McGregor, 2:2134, The past season he won $1,250 with Bird Eye, 2:1434. A 3 -year-old filly by Advertiser, 2:151/4, out of Sontag Dixie, dam of Pasonte, 2:13, is expected to show bet- ter etter than 2:15 In 1901. She is owned by Frank H. Burke, San Francisco, who paid only $45 for her,—Horseman. ITEMS OF INTEREST. i There are 4,000 tons of stone in the pyramid of Cheops. It could be built for $20,000,000 today. Denmark lends the world for thrifti- ness. Her inhabitants have on an aver- age $50 in the savings banks. Germany has just held its first na- tional exhibition of asses near Berlin. There were over 4,000 entries, Over 400 species of trees are known In the Philippine Islands. Of these about 50 have commercial valve. I41 the world be divided into land and water hemispheres, London is the cen- ter of the land, New Zealand of the wa- ter. Thirty thousand women spend tbeir lives in driving and steering the canal - boats 1n southern and midland Eng- land. The most costly parliament in Eu- rope is that of France. The senate and chamber of deputies cost annually $1,- 500,000. Barbers for dogs are very much In demand in Paris, and those who are expert are said to earn comfortable in- comes. They solicit business on the boulevards, In Europe, wbere polished floors have so long leen popular, It Is the custom to polish them carefully and prefera- bly with a cloth fastened on tbe shoe. Professional cleaners or polishers have' learned tie skate about at a great rate and to do polishing quickly and well. WOMEN AND LOVE. Love gives Itself and Is not bought. -- Longfellow. Kindness in women, not their beaute- ous looks, shall win my love.—Sbaltes- peare. Women are a new race created since the world received Christianity.— Beecher. A fair test and measure of cvlt:a- tion Is the influence of good women.— Emerson. The brain woman never interests us like the heart women; white roses please less than red.—Holmes. He who cannot feel friendship is alike incapable of love. Let a woman' beware of -a man who owns he loves no one but himself—Talleyrand. The modest virgin, the prudent wife• or the careful matron is nub more I serviceable . In life than petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines or Virago gtl�ens. (oldamitb CHILDREN AND TOYS. PLAYTHINGS MAY SE TOQ SEAU'rll'Ui, AND TOO TRUE TQ NATURE, Children Do Not Care I+'or Natvnrab, iatie Toga--.Tlte horse, the Dolt and Sunt, Thins•& e§oeld Leave dome,, thing to the Imag,•imntlon, Tile other day when I wag staying an, der the roof which had obligingly she1, tered Audrey until she left It Ie a show- er oe rive, shot condacted oleate the nut's+ cry, where, ae she cold, iter bapplest days, had been spent, As to the happiest dayep I did net believe la them_ a bit and teL her so. Personally I' look back upois my nursery experience with more horror than delight, It bulked huge with ghosts, mysteries of closed doors, portentous Callings. Until the clock chimed told, night I was subject to the powers o1� darkness. Mtn that no specter could hove convinced 102 of its reality, There was a vast Inciter is the nureery In which Audrey had first acquired her sense of humor, and from this she pro,, duced an endless variety' of discarded, toys. A11 were more or 'lass damaged, many more were inchoate lumps, front whieh, after a careful examination, there beamed forth some hint of their original condition. Audrey at in the midst of piled confusion, with an air of sut'reptt- tious happiness. It wee as though ab said, "This is what I want to do all m life" She hugged in her arms what conjectured to have once represented a hippopotamus. I ventured to say that it had a harassed and disturbed appear. encs. But it isn't a• hippo at all," she tried. "Guess again!" "I give it np," I said. "Why, it's a horse!" I shook my head. "My dear glee, your memory must be at fault. That was never a home." "Why, it's a horse now," she said affect. it ie at ho tionately. Well, if se," I said. it's a horse to you, I suppose r "That's just its" she cried. "That's et;- ectly what I was saying to 700 'eater - day." I remembered the discussion. Audrey, bad been inveighing against modern toys, and I bad taken the opposite view. She had asserted that children did not care for naturalistic toys; they left nothing to the imagination. A crude representation 0f an animal was much dearer to them than an accurate model. They respected the elephant which was just like the real ones they had seen and which wagged its head so realistically, but they did not love it. They didn't want to take it to bed with them. It was the same, she said, with dolls. The beautiful creature dress- ed up in Sunday clothes never touched their hearts; all their affection was lav- ished upon some tatterdemalion object over which they could laugh and cry without any sense of incongruity. It was the same, she asserted, with picture books; everything was too accurate. "But," I Bald, "would you have them grow up with the wrong models before them?" "Did it do any harm to your sense of form to have an impossible wooden horse to play with? Of course it didn't You knew the horse was wrong. You could compare It with a proper horse by just looking out of the window, but the thing with a body like a thick rolling pin left something to your imagination." "You're a very reactionary young per- son," Tvoid. "Our modern cult of the child has always seemed to me beautiful- ly right " "So it is in most ways, but not in the matter of toys. It's just like this: When people go to buy toys—grown up people, I mean—they don't look at them from the child's point of view. They see an artistic piece of modeling, and it appeals to them; therefore they buy it Now, that's all wrong." I must admit that," said I. 'You've almost convinced me. At that point our conversation had been interrupted by the youngest brother, who always manages to tell me in some roundabout way what he particularly wants fly n Christmas present. He be- gan to tall[ .about books out of deference to my connection with the writing trade. He didn't want a book, It appeared; partly, I suspect, because he fondly .imagines I can get any book for noth- ing. But there was a new cricket hand- book with all about bats in it He could borrow the handbook from Smithson major- By the way, had he told me that his bat had split clean up the blade? "We shall have to give him a bat, I suppose," Audrey had said. "It's a pity they're so expensive" Well, as I watched Audrey sitting among that amazing collection of dilapi- dated toys I became more and more con- vinced that she was right. At any rate, the child in her was awake again, and she even fell into some of the baby talk which years before had been addressed to the contents of the locker. She bom- barded me with beasts, If her aim had been a little less Infirm, I might have suffered severely. As it was, I escaped with a wool stuffed zebra in the eye. "No toy should bo given to a young child," she said, "which it can't fling about," "Lay down a few more rales," I said, warding off a kangaroo. "No toy should be too beautiful." "Not even for girls?" "Least of all for gide," she said, though she didn't mean it. "Well, go on." "No thy should be directly educational. It makes a child think that lt's being im- posed upon." It was apparently to enforce this statement that the zebra was launched at my head. hurt?I'm" so sorry,".said Audrey. "Did it "No toy," I replied severely, "should be burled at living target, even by a child like you."—Pall Mall Gazette, Higher Education of Women. Mrs, Alice Freeman Palmer, ex -presi- dent of Wellesley college, says that "of the 60 colleges and universities of this country of the highest standing only nine refuse to women their degrees, Princeton being the only university In the United States that refuses to confer honors on women, 1+7very college founded slime the war of the rebellion bas heeu founded for both men and w0meu. This naturally ae- • tests the condition of life in both the city and country, Practically all schools be- low the high school are In the hands of women, and SO per eeut of the teachers In New ltnitland high schools are wo- men. Formerly If a woman studied the sciences, philosophy or the olossics it was said she world Nose her health, re- ligion and morals. But thee has proved just the contrary.",